City Council tackles fishing pier, dog parkThe Kodiak City Council discussed and voiced support for a leash-free dog park within city limits, and heard a councilman pitch the idea of building a fishing pier for local residents. Councilman Charlie Davidson told the council during Tuesday’s work session that there aren’t any good opportunities for senior citizens or children to fish without needing a boat or a vehicle. “A fishing community, and we have no pl...

Kodiak resident completes 80-day spring courseLander, Wyo.— Daniel Zimmer, 19, of Kodiak, Alaska, recently completed a Wilderness Medicine and Rescue Semester traveling in the Rocky Mountains with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Zimmer and his coursemates began their semester with wilderness emergency medical technician training. This section lasted four weeks and combined urban EMT training with a wilderness first responder course. The trainin...

Post 17 hits road for six gamesAfter spending the first two weeks of the season at home, Kodiak Post 17 hits the road for a jam-packed slat of games. The six-game in five-day trip begins with a nine-inning league contest against Fairbanks 11 on Friday at the Kosinski Field Complex in Anchorage. Kodiak will then play a doubleheader against Fairbanks 30 on Saturday and single games against Fairbanks 11 on Sunday, East Anchorage on Monday and June...

Thomet to run at junior championshipsLevi Thomet will finish his stellar Kodiak High School career on Friday morning at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Thomet, one of the most accomplished runners to graduate from KHS, is running the 5,000 meters at the USATF Junior Outdoor Championships. The gun goes off at 9:38 a.m. The assembled field features a mix of college and high school runners. Notable college runners include University of Oregon’...

Wildlife Troopers get ready for Operation Dry Water in KodiakAlaska Wildlife Troopers will be out on the waterways, including in Kodiak, specifically to contact boaters to make sure all vessel operators are not impaired as part of Operation Dry Water, the state’s Department of Public Safety said in a news release Wednesday. Operation Dry Water is on its sixth annual heightened awareness and educational campaign and will take place from June 26 through June 28, the news rele...

Locals run in Mayor’s racesThree Kodiakans competed in the Mayor’s Midnight Sun Marathon and Half Marathon Saturday in Anchorage. Jennifer Webster finished 379th out of 1,070 females in the half-marathon with a time of 2 hours, 19 minutes, 12 seconds. Webster was 33rd in her age division (40-44). Kelley Vandyke finished 532nd in the half-marathon and was 81st in her age division (55-59) with a time of 2:31:24. Utah’s Ashley Hawks won the wo...

Locals run in Mayor’s racesThree Kodiakans competed in the Mayor’s Midnight Sun Marathon and Half Marathon Saturday in Anchorage. Jennifer Webster finished 379th out of 1,070 females in the half-marathon with a time of 2 hours, 19 minutes, 12 seconds. Webster was 33rd in her age division (40-44). Kelley Vandyke finished 532nd in the half-marathon and was 81st in her age division (55-59) with a time of 2:31:24. Utah’s Ashley Hawks won the wo...

City’s Pier 3 gets closer to being finishedThe City of Kodiak is in discussions over out-of-round pilings provided for Pier 3 as the construction of the new dock draws closer to completion. Project manager Roe Sturgulewski said during Tuesday’s city council work session that the dock itself should be about finished by mid-July. The new crane for the dock is scheduled to arrive on July 20. He said there’s still utility and electrical work to be done in the ...

Sampling allows biologists to estimate strength of salmon run in Kodiak ADF&G biologists “sampled” salmon from a Buskin Lake Weir on Tuesday as they aimed to make projections on the strength of the salmon run in Kodiak. “We take a scale, the length of the fish and record whether it’s a male or female,” said Tyler Polum, assistant area biologist at the department’s sport fish division. “The scales can tell us the age of the fish based on growth patterns visible under magnification.” Po...